Baloney! My ex is a fat ass and she can eat twice as much as I can! In fact she used to always joke that I eat like a bird! Maybe that's why I can still where the same clothes I wore when I was in high school (that I graduated from twenty years ago) and she can't wear the same clothes she bought last year!

vudukungfu:markfara: 1) The ones that charge a single price for "all you can eat" attract people with slobbish eating habits and poor hygiene (and fat children who touch the food with their fingers to help them decide if they want it or not).

I've seen skinny kids do it too.No discipline in children nowadays.I know who they get that from.

#1 Rule with kids and buffets or group dining -If you touch it you've got to take it.

The Muthaship:meanmutton: In the Us, women don't pay higher health insurance premiums. That's explicitly illegal. Insurance companies can only use age as a rating factor and even there they can't have their highest age rating be more than 3 times the cost of their lowest age rating. Source: ACA

Stupid facts ruining all that good self-righteousness....

I think you both missed the sarcasm in the statement regarding women paying higher health care premiums.

Monkeyhouse Zendo:The Muthaship: meanmutton: In the Us, women don't pay higher health insurance premiums. That's explicitly illegal. Insurance companies can only use age as a rating factor and even there they can't have their highest age rating be more than 3 times the cost of their lowest age rating. Source: ACA

Stupid facts ruining all that good self-righteousness....

I think you both missed the sarcasm in the statement regarding women paying higher health care premiums.

And, the person completely missed the point of why peeps were mentioning health care premiums, was self righteous about it, then erroneously accused those other people of being self righteous. It really is a glorious post.

Everytime something like this comes up I flashxback to when I was the boss over an office with eight women and one guy. Generally things went OK but I always remember the day the guy came into my office and asked,

"Why is it that men and women are equal when it's time to clean the breakroom, but when there's something heavy to lift, I'm the only guy in the office?"

Tommy Moo:I have no problem doing this. Actuarial science is legitimate. If you don't enforce actuary standards, you end up with businesses discouraging certain people from purchasing their products.

However, if we're going to make men pay more for buffets and car insurance, then let's stop whining about women making slightly less money because it costs their employers more to provide health insurance for them.

but equul rites dood!!!11

People have their head up their ass if they truly think the world will ever be equal based on gender.

not saying we shouldn't try, but when people go and write stupid shiat like this article it makes me second guess why bother trying.

Every time something like this comes up I flash back to when I was the boss over an office with eight women and one guy. Generally things went OK but I always remember the day the guy came into my office and asked,

"Why is it that men and women are equal when it's time to clean the breakroom, but when there's something heavy to lift, I'm the only guy in the office?"

reprobate1125:As a kid some of the Amish smorgasbords would charge kids by the pound...as in their weight. It was fun as a little kid but as I got into the tween years it was a little awkward to have people busting out calculators to figure out if they should charge my butt for as a kid or adult.

Lokkii:Every time something like this comes up I flash back to when I was the boss over an office with eight women and one guy. Generally things went OK but I always remember the day the guy came into my office and asked,

"Why is it that men and women are equal when it's time to clean the breakroom, but when there's something heavy to lift, I'm the only guy in the office?"

Because women, like men, also know how to work the double standard system.

Some Japanese buffets have similar pricing policies with men paying a few hundred yen more than women. It was a little odd when I first saw it but, honestly, I see far more shocking things than this on my way to work in the morning.

smoky2010:GORDON: smoky2010: GORDON: smoky2010: Nogale: Businesses aren't, or shouldn't be, stupid. They know how to set prices to cover a profit that changes slightly from customer to customer.

I have long, extremely thick wavy hair. When I go to get it colored, my hairdresser has to use more product than he does with other clients. He doesn't charge me more.

Your hairdresser doesn't charge you as he is overcharging everyone. You're just using closer to what you are paying for.

This is the same way my coffee place affords to give me a free coffee once in a while. I'm paying $1 for a cup, cream, sugar and coffee that only costs about $.10 to produce.

If only ingredients were the only expenses the guy selling you that cup of coffee had... he'd be making a shiatload of profit.

But I am just nitpicking. Point still stands.

I buy my coffee at cumberland farms. Yes, there is some labor overhead but not much. So, that $.10 coffee may cost $.15. Thanks for keeping me honest.

I don't know what a cumberland farms is. If I did you might have swayed me. But I doubt it is a magical place that doesn't have any transportation, taxation, labor, energy, or storage costs.

It a regional convenience store / gas station. If you would like to learn more, go to google, type "Cumberland Farms" into the search bar and press enter.

\The more you know!

So in order to get a good cup of coffee, the first step is to create a gas station called cumberland farms, and that is really inexpensive.... nevermind. Too tired to continue trolling. Gonna go get some of the "free" coffee supplied by my employer.

Tommy Moo:However, if we're going to make men pay more for buffets and car insurance, then let's stop whining about women making slightly less money because it costs their employers more to provide health insurance for them.

Women don't make less money than men for doing the same work, women choose to work fewer hours or do different work. In fact, if you look at the cohort of young, urban, never married, college graduates women currently outearn men by a significant margin.

Pathman:So? A business should be able to charge whatever the hell it wants. If you don't like it, eat somewhere else.As it were i'm pretty sure they already have a price structure for people that eat different amounts - it's called the menu.

this article has click-bait written all over it.

....for that matter, these laws requiring businesses to serve those them thar dark people are BS too!

Omnis_evil_twin:Some Japanese buffets have similar pricing policies with men paying a few hundred yen more than women. It was a little odd when I first saw it but, honestly, I see far more shocking things than this on my way to work in the morning.

Truthfully I could care less if I had to pay more for food based on my gender. I already went through that years ago with car insurance as an early 20s gentleman. I think things even out in the end and for every service you provide and charge a man more for, there is another charging women more for. The only thing is the hardcore feminists seem to be OK with this point of view, but anything that makes them pay more than a man for then they get their snuggs in a bundle and claim mysogyny and "womens rights."

It is a double standard and it wont go away from either sex for as long as we continue to procreate.

Monkeyhouse Zendo:Pathman: So? A business should be able to charge whatever the hell it wants. If you don't like it, eat somewhere else.

Dinner for white folks: $30Dinner for colored folks people of color: $200

I trust you can see where your assertion starts to come apart?

yeah, the race card already came up.Personally i for one think a business should be able to do that...how long do you think a business would last doing that?i'd rather know if i'm doing business with a bigot or not.

that being said, race is a protected class. Gender is protected in terms of wages and hiring practices.Every now and then you read a story of places cracking down (or trying to crack down) on pricing structures based on gender.

how far do you take it? Should hairdressers not be allowed charge different rates for women or men? should they be barred from catering to only one gender? should half-off drinks/cover charges for women be illegal?

what about kid prices? age is a protected class.

how much intrusion in the name of "for your own good" should we tolerate?

Obviously this is a philosophical exercise, i don't really see a huge problem with banningDinner for white folks: $30Dinner for colored folks people of color: $200

but while i'm not sure where that bright line is - i definitely think it's to the left of "it's illegal to charge men more for all you can eat"

Monkeyhouse Zendo:Tommy Moo: However, if we're going to make men pay more for buffets and car insurance, then let's stop whining about women making slightly less money because it costs their employers more to provide health insurance for them.

Women don't make less money than men for doing the same work, women choose to work fewer hours or do different work. In fact, if you look at the cohort of young, urban, never married, college graduates women currently outearn men by a significant margin.

The wage gap is a myth.

"Women abuse children more often than men do (with a hugely disproportionate amount of it meted out to male children). They're also statistically more likely to the first ones to take a swing in instances of domestic violence. Also, the biggest predictor of anorexia in young women is the presence of a mother who is critical of her daughter's physical appearance."

Pathman:So? A business should be able to charge whatever the hell it wants. If you don't like it, eat somewhere else.As it were i'm pretty sure they already have a price structure for people that eat different amounts - it's called the menu.

vudukungfu:markfara: 1) The ones that charge a single price for "all you can eat" attract people with slobbish eating habits and poor hygiene (and fat children who touch the food with their fingers to help them decide if they want it or not).

I've seen skinny kids do it too.No discipline in children nowadays.I know who they get that from.

CSB time:

When my (now in his 30's) stepson was about 8, we were at a buffet. Imagine my horror when I saw him take the spoon from a pan with a sample of the food on it, lick it, and start to return it to the pan. I never knew I could put down my plate in a safe place, grab his hand, his plate, the spoon, shove them behind me out of the way then grab the pan out of the buffet slot (yes, it was incredibly hot, but I wasn't thinking of that) so that no one could touch it. Of course I flagged down the nearest waitstaff I could and explained, and apologized, and they promptly replaced the pan with new food.

One of the many times our children can make up move faster than we ever thought possible.

We had a talk over dinner about how that was just not what you did in a public place.

Satan's Bunny Slippers:vudukungfu: markfara: 1) The ones that charge a single price for "all you can eat" attract people with slobbish eating habits and poor hygiene (and fat children who touch the food with their fingers to help them decide if they want it or not).

I've seen skinny kids do it too.No discipline in children nowadays.I know who they get that from.

CSB time:

When my (now in his 30's) stepson was about 8, we were at a buffet. Imagine my horror when I saw him take the spoon from a pan with a sample of the food on it, lick it, and start to return it to the pan. I never knew I could put down my plate in a safe place, grab his hand, his plate, the spoon, shove them behind me out of the way then grab the pan out of the buffet slot (yes, it was incredibly hot, but I wasn't thinking of that) so that no one could touch it. Of course I flagged down the nearest waitstaff I could and explained, and apologized, and they promptly replaced the pan with new food.

One of the many times our children can make up move faster than we ever thought possible.

We had a talk over dinner about how that was just not what you did in a public place.

/CSB

Please, have more children. Or at least take a few from some average parents.